Hanspeter Kyburz
Hanspeter Kyburz's music accomplishes the difficult task of being both
unpredictable and irresistible in its direction. It combines a
digressive use of tradition, as seen in Ligeti, with the art of
pulverizing material and the exploitation of dramatic dimensions of
space. Today, the Swiss composer produces a virtuoso synthesis between
the German style impatience of trajectory and the French mastery of
harmonics. There is no doubt that the influence of science, literature
and philosophy are central to his creativity (texts by Hermann Broch,
Lindenmayer systems, and the constructivism of Jean Piaget) but these
external influences are never used to justify his music.
